Android Tutorial

By : Ketan Bhimani

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Reading XML Files

The Android SDK includes several utilities for working with XML

files, including SAX, an XML Pull Parser, and limited DOM, Level 2

Core support. Table lists the packages helpful for XML parsing on

the Android platform.

Important XML Utility Packages

Working with Other Directories and Files on the Android File

System

Using Context.openFileOutput() and Context.openFileInput() are

great if you have a few files and you want them stored in the /files

subdirectory, but if you have more sophisticated file-management

needs, you need to set up your own directory structure. To do this,

you must interact with the Android file system using the standard

java.io.File class methods.

The following code gets a File object for the /files application

subdirectory and retrieves a list of all filenames in that directory: